I want to know that can Alexa train to listen only Custom created Skill ?
If yes can anyone tell me the procedure to do it.
I am into an project which basically includes Alexa into it, i want to block all the in build commands like "Alexa, Play a song", "Alexa, Play Sounds" and etc, i only want that Alexa should only listen to my custom skill rest all commands should be ignored. In the same way any other user should not add any Skill in Alexa.
Sir Please do help me in it,
It would be grateful
Alexa should ignore all that stuff when it uses your invocation name. For example if your invocation is cool music, when the user says alexa ask cool music to play a song it would ignore in built commands and follow the commands programmed by you.
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I have created a Amazon custom skill and using this skill in the test tab, I 'm able to get the intended response in the python code and turn the led on and off.
But I'm not able to make the Sample app (avs-device-sdk alexa voice application) to invoice/call the custom skill. Can you please guide what must be done to make this happen?
This is my first attempt in building custom skill/alexa voice service and trying my hands out. I 'm unclear what is the next step to make the alexa voice service to talk to the custom skill.
I would like to develop a WordPress plugin that will allow users to voice-interact with a WordPress website. I want it to be based on Alexa Skill.
What would be the architecture for this task?
If you think your use case is relatively standard, you can take a look at VoiceWP, which was built to allow for management of an Alexa skill mostly from within WordPress.
If you need something more custom, you can use the WordPress REST API to provide Alexa with the data you need. With this architecture, your plugin on the WordPress side would just be setting up and managing all the REST API endpoints.
From the top down the architecture looks like this:
This leaves you with 3 pieces to build:
Set up the Alexa Skill
First, you have to set up the skill with the Alexa Skills Kit. This involves setting up things like the name of your skill, the icon, and most importantly, where the skill should look to get it's functionality. In our example, we'll point the skill to an AWS Lambda function.
Set up the Lambda Skill to fulfill the Alexa input
Once the Skill knows to look to the Lambda function for it's functionality, we actually need to code the Lambda function. This can be done in Node.js (JavaScript), Python, Java (Java 8 compatible), C# (.NET Core) or Go. What the Lambda function needs to do is parse the JSON that comes from Alexa and determine which endpoint to call or which parameters to pass to this endpoint. For an example of this in Python, you can check out my example on GitHub.
Set up WordPress endpoints to provide data
Once you have the Lambda function parsing the user's intent and pushing the request to the specific endpoints, you need to write the code from within WordPress to make sure all the endpoints you need are available. This is the part that I'm able to give the least input on because the specific endpoints that you will need are based on your use case, which I don't really know at this point. But for an example of how we created a settings field and returned that value through a custom REST API endpoint, you can see this example on GitHub.
Wrapping up and Extending it Further
So once the data is returned from WordPress, formatted by the Lambda function and returned to Alexa, the user will hear the results of their query.
This can be customized and further functionality added by adding more endpoints to WordPress and more routing to the Lambda function based on new Alexa voice inputs.
Further Reading Watching
If you're interested in learning more, I've given a couple talks about this:
WP REST API as the Foundation of the Open Web Voice stuff starts at 11:06
Voice Is The New Keyboard: Voice Interfaces In 2018 And Beyond - This uses Google Home for the custom skill, but the ideas presented here are the same.
I have a database of customers details with their phone numbers, I want to develop a skill where my customers can place calls by searching that database.
I referred this link and found that calling skill can be implemented, but as far as I know, there's no documentation available for it, so if anyone could guide me through how calling skill can be implemented that would be helpful.
thanks
finally, Amazon developers have responded, that it is not possible to call anyone through Alexa , we can always use 3rd party APIs though.
I am about to develop my first custom skill for Alexa. I do not have a Echo device.
What I did was to creating and testing a basic skill with the amazon developer console (Alexa Skill + Lambda).
Now I'm have some general (nooby) questions here:
1) Is this really the way you have to develop and test your custom skills? I mean it is not the real user experience that can be tested. You have to enter the text and analyse the JSON request/responses. So, there is no realistic end-to-end testing possible?
2) What happens when you finish the developing phase in the Amazon developer console? I'm currently in the Testing step but I can see that the next steps are about publishing information (images, texts, etc.) and I can also see the button "Submit for Certification". So for me it seems that my custom skill gets published on some kind of market to other Alexa users? Is this correct? Is there a way to just use this skill for my personal usage - just like a APK-file Android app?
3) I'm developing a custom skill that needs some kind of authorization (User). I see there is a large article about it and it seems that there is some action on the Alexa App needed on the smartphone. My question is now here, how to test it without having a real device? Is it actually possible?
I'd suggest, first test locally, then use the test console and
finally, you can use https://echosim.io which will provide you a
very close test bed to what you get when interacting with the Echo
(more precisely, the Echo Tap, you have to tap the button for it to
listen).
If you just want the skill for yourself, forget about
anything past the testing step. That extra information is only for
the "store" as you guessed.
If you only need to identify individual
users, then you DO NOT need to use the user authentication stuff.
There is a unique user identifier provided in every request. If you
want to authenticate users with a third party Oauth-like scheme,
then read that document.
There's a pretty useful series by Big Nerd Ranch about developing the skills locally using NodeJS: https://www.bignerdranch.com/blog/developing-alexa-skills-locally-with-nodejs-setting-up-your-local-environment/. They use alexa-app, mocha, chai, and alexa-app-server.
I'd like to be able to remotely cause Alexa to say something on my Echo.
A specific use case would be to notify my wife that I'm leaving work. I currently use Waze to do this, but it would be very convenient if Alexa could be triggered to say "Ron is on his way home" also.
I've talked with people about this, and I don't think Amazon supports this yet. I'm posting here to give us a place to find out if/when that support happens, or inform us if it is somehow possible now.
This is currently not possible. However, you could launch a skill via a Routine.
An Alexa routine consists of a trigger and a sequence of actions. The trigger is an event such as a time of day (for example, 7:00 AM) or a user request such as, "Alexa, start my Morning Session".
Please check the following blog post for further details:
https://developer.amazon.com/en-US/blogs/alexa/alexa-skills-kit/2019/10/tell-your-customers-they-can-now-invoke-your-skill-from-routines
https://developer.amazon.com/en-US/docs/alexa/custom-skills/integrate-custom-task-with-alexa-routines.html#what-are-alexa-routines